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This will be my final post regarding this mysterious illness I came down with a few days ago. Here's the last sub: https://poal.co/s/TellPoal/445112

My temperature has been 98.6 all day today. I feel fine, maybe a little tired, but otherwise I am absolutely fine. I probably had a cold or sinus infection. I felt like shit for two days, started feeling better yesterday, and today I feel almost fully recovered. My immune system did its job.

I made the original post, because in this fucked up medical-tyrant state we're living in, being sick is like a fucking mark on you. And I began to question what I knew to be the truth, I know that covid is bullshit- it's either not real, a re-branded flu, or not nearly as dangerous as they've been telling us.

I became distressed, concerned about this affecting my ability to work. 2 years ago, this would've been as simple as "I'm going to call out for 2 days because I have a fever, I don't want to get any of my co-workers sick". But now, companies have an absolutely hysterical reaction to a sick employee. If I showed up to work, and they took my temp and saw it was 100.8 on Wednesday, they would've sent me home, ordering me to get a covid test before I am allowed to return to work. They would've closed the shop to get everyone else tested.

They make it into this huge fucking deal, make you feel like you're in extreme danger. I think this fucks up your immune system- when stressed, your body dumps out cortisol, a stress hormone, because you're concerned about the future of your job/life/family. This weakens your immune system.

You guys gave me a needed morale boost. You guys helped me reaffirm my beliefs, helped me to remain confident in what I know and in my ability to overcome what is truly a minor illness. I followed some of your advice, taking zinc supplements, Vitamin C, all that good stuff. And now I'm fine. And I owe a lot of this to you guys who eased my initial concerns.

Thank you, cousins. I hope you are all remaining healthy. Getting sick today is a huge deal now because apparently the government and employers are now responsible for your health.

This will be my final post regarding this mysterious illness I came down with a few days ago. Here's the last sub: https://poal.co/s/TellPoal/445112 My temperature has been 98.6 all day today. I feel fine, maybe a little tired, but otherwise I am absolutely fine. I probably had a cold or sinus infection. I felt like shit for two days, started feeling better yesterday, and today I feel almost fully recovered. My immune system did its job. I made the original post, because in this fucked up medical-tyrant state we're living in, being sick is like a fucking *mark* on you. And I began to question what I *knew* to be the truth, I know that covid is bullshit- it's either not real, a re-branded flu, or not nearly as dangerous as they've been telling us. I became distressed, concerned about this affecting my ability to work. 2 years ago, this would've been as simple as "I'm going to call out for 2 days because I have a fever, I don't want to get any of my co-workers sick". But now, companies have an absolutely hysterical reaction to a sick employee. If I showed up to work, and they took my temp and saw it was 100.8 on Wednesday, they would've sent me home, ordering me to get a covid test before I am allowed to return to work. They would've closed the shop to get everyone else tested. **They make it into this huge fucking deal, make you feel like you're in extreme danger.** I think this fucks up your immune system- when stressed, your body dumps out cortisol, a stress hormone, because you're concerned about the future of your job/life/family. This weakens your immune system. You guys gave me a needed morale boost. You guys helped me reaffirm my beliefs, helped me to remain confident in what I know and in my ability to overcome what is truly a minor illness. I followed some of your advice, taking zinc supplements, Vitamin C, all that good stuff. And now I'm fine. And I owe a lot of this to you guys who eased my initial concerns. Thank you, cousins. I hope you are all remaining healthy. Getting sick today is a huge deal now because apparently the government and employers are now responsible for your health.

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You need a zinc ionophore to get the zinc inside your cells for the best antiviral protection. Think of it as a zinc activator.

Tonic water and green tea are two effective zinc ionophores.

There are others. You actually do normally get a lot of zinc in your regular diet. A single chicken egg has about 4mg, and your daily requirement is only 15mg. In this sense, consuming the zinc ionophore is probably more important than the zinc tablets themselves.

I just take both for the overkill:)

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I haven't had eggs in a while, I used to have them daily... maybe I should get back to that.

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green tea acts as a zinc ionopore

I did not know that. Do you have a source for that information?

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Not offhand, but there are hundreds of sources.

The basics are simple - viruses hijack the cells and use the cell's reproductive mechanics to make more viruses. Zinc inside the cells will attach itself at the molecular level to the viral RNA production product, jamming up the equipment, stopping new virus production cold. Essentially, that is the end of that particular virus. I assume the immune system can later detect the infected cell, destroy it and get a replacement cell formed from a stem cell. Most important, however, is that that particular cell will reproduce no new viruses.

As such, to get the best results from the zinc as an anti viral, you need to get it from the blood stream to inside as many cells as possible. Normally this is not possible because of the normal electric charge of the zinc molecule. Alone it cannot easily pass the cell wall barrier. It needs to come into contact with a zinc ionophore, which I have read changes the electrical charge of the zinc molecule, creating zinc ion, or some such, which can pass the cell wall barrier. Alas, I am not a chemist, nor a biologist. I am a computer scientist.

There are several well known zinc ionophores, both natural and synthetic. Green Tea has one of them, and Quinine (which is in tonic water,) is another.